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A BRIEF H1ST0RT \l 

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CRUELTIES AND ATROCITIES 

OF THE REBELLION. 

COMPILED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, BY THOS. L. WILSON. 



" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities."— Peace and 
Disunion Platform of the Chicago Copperhead Convention. 



TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR. 

The rule formerly was, to slay without mercy, or reduce to a state 
of abject bondage, the unfortunate captive of war. The men who 
perpetrated such cruel and bloody deeds, even in the darkest age, and 
places of the world, have been written in all history as barbarous, 
and their memory branded with infamy. Modern civilization and 
Christianity, amongst most nations, have induced a better method. 
How far their influence has been manifested, under the auspices of 
the rebel Government, the brief, well-authenticated statements of 
actual occurrences, recorded in the following pages will show : 

Surgeon Honiston was taken prisoner at the first battle of Bull 
Run. He begged to be allowed to remain upon the field to take care 
of our wounded, but in vain. He stated that Dr. Dailey, of South 
Carolina, was sent to the field by Gen. Beauregard to take charge of 
our wounded, but would not allow us (Federal Surgeons) to perform 
operations upon our own men, but had them performed by his Assis- 
tants, young men — some of them with no more knowledge of what 
they attempted, than an apothecary's clerk; "they performed the 
operations in a most horrible manner, some of them absolutely fright- 
ful ;" there was no attention paid to the wounded, and, it was impos- 
sible for them to get anything to eat ; they lay through a drenching 
rain on Monday, the battle having occurred on Sunday, anjl a sultry 
sun on Tuesday, until Wednesday, before they were permitted to be 
removed, when their "wounds were completely alive with larvce ;" 
some lay on the field for five days. Let it be remembered, that this 
was at the outset of the contest, before repeated collisions had whetted 
the passions of the contending parties. 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

Surgeon Swalen testifies, that he was on the battle-field ten or 
twelve daj'S after the battle, and saw some of our men still unburied 
and entirely . naked, having been robbed of their clothing by the 
rebels ; (it seems unnatural that "high-minded gentlemen," chivalry, 
would actually steal, unless driven to it by necessity, which could not 
have been the case so early in the history of the Confederacy;) some 
of our men were buried face downward — an intended disgrace. Some 
of the graves had been opened by pushing rails beneath the bodies 
to get the tops of the skulls to make driuking cups. One of these 
cups was found by a member of a New Jersey regiment, after our 
army advanced upon the forts, defended by " wooden guns," and 
which had kept McClellan at bay for eighteen months. 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.'' 

Dr. Ferguson, of New York, was fired upon when attending the 



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wounded, and after he told them who he was, they brutally, shot him 

in the lee When he was carried off the field the jolting of the am- 
bulances so hurt him, that he involuntarily groaned, whereupon a 
rebel officer rode up to him and threatened to blow his brains out it 
he repeated "his noise." 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

General Ricketts testifies that when he. lay on the field wounded 

the passing rebels called out, "knock out his brains, the d d 

Yankee." He heard of many of the prisoners, who were bayoneted, 
and two or three shot after they arrived in Richmond. 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.'" 

Senator Sprague, who went to recover the bodies of Col. Slocum 
'and Major Ballon, testified that he was told, when searching the bat- 
tle-ground, that the Colonel's body had been dug up, his head cut 
o£, and his body burned. After thorough and repeated investiga- 
tions, the Senator became fully satisfied that both of these gallant 
men did indeed suffer this unhallowed and barbarous rite of sepul- 
chre at the hands of their own countrymen, who boast themselves 
gentlemen, par excellence, their chivalry, and that their's is the only 
genuine type of manhood on the face of God's green earth. The 
Senator corroborates the statement that many of our men were buried 
face downward, and similar outrages unheard of and unthought of, 
nave among the unsanctioned rites of pagan and savage -nations. 
Heaven save us and the rest of mankind from such Christianity, aud 
such civilization, if their's is the only genuine. An official report 
of Judge Advocate General Holt, dated March 27, 1863, gives a 
heart-rending picture of the barbarities of the rebels upon twenty- 
two Federal prisoners, captured near Chattanooga, Tenm One of 
them was stripped, tied down to a stone, and whipped until life was 
nearly extinct. After whipping him, they brought a rope to hang 
him, but his life was finally spared. Eight of these men were hung, 
after having been tried by a court-martial and acquitted. But the 
authorities at Richmond over-ruled the court, and ordered them 
hung. From the breaking of the rope, after being Bometirne sus- 
pended, two of these unhappy victims were restored to conscious- 
ness ; they begged for one hour for prayer and preparation for death, 
which was peremptorily refused, and the execution proceeded. What 
better is this than cowardly butchery? The remaining prisoners, 
reduced to fourteen, closely confined in jail at Atlanta, accidentally 
learned that it was determined by the Richmond government to hang 
them, and they laid a plan of cseapc. Eight succeeded, six entered 
our lines, two were never heard from. The following brief dispatch 
tells the Story of the remaining six: " At the end of eleven months 
terminated their pitiless persecutions in the prisons of the South — 
persecutions begun and continued amid indignities and sufferings on 
their part, and atrocities on the part of the barbarous foe, which il- 
lustrates far more faithfully than any human language could express, 
the demoniac Bpiril of a revolt, every throb of whose life is a crime 
.against th.- wrv race to which we belong." 

■ a testation of hostilities." 
Lir.r.v PRISON. 
At a meeting ma of the United States Army and Navy, a 



report was prepared, November 26th, 1863, and sent to the Presi- 
dent, which contained the following facts. About one thousand offi- 
cers of all grades, and from both branches of the service, are confined 
in Libby prison, whose walls are unplastered, thus open to the full 
8weep\)f the winter winds, or closed with boards — rendering the 

• place dark, dreary, and loathsome in the extreme. None of the pri- 
- vate soldiers are furnished with bedding of any kind. Belle Island 
1 contains six thousand three hundred prisoners, whose condition is 
" wretched beyond all description. An insufficient number of tents to 

• protect the men from the cold and rain, no blankets nor bedding 
| given them by their captors. Only one Surgeon was assigned to the 
^ Island, who makes but one visits day, and then does not enter the 
. enclosures of the men. Such as are too sick to walk, never see him-; 

they are hurried off to the hospital when their condition is absolutely 
helpless. An officer of high standing, who visited the Island, says 
•the men followed him in crowds, and in the most eager tones begged 
of him for bread; many literally starved to death. Some days as 
high as fifty died, and from no other apparent cause. Officers, for 
the most trivial offences, were confined for weeks in dark, damp 
dungeons. Men were shot by the guards for standing near and look- 
ing out of the windows. Some were shot, others wounded, by the 
wanton wretches, who stood their guns on the floor beneath and fired 
through the floor overhead. To such extremities were these un- 
fortunate men driven, that in one instance a dog was killed and 
eaten; and the prisoners- on the Island were known to hunt the 
gutters for bones, to suck from them nutriment to appease the terri- 
ble gnawings of hunger. These are facts, derived from personal 
observation, transpiring in a Christian community, among "high-toned 
gentlemen," but written right across the rebel Confederacy, dark as 
midnight and revolting as despair.. 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities. , ' 
FORT PILLOW. 

The most revolting of all barbarities was that of Fort Pillow. The 
War Committee, after thorough inquiry into the conduct of Forest, 
and his murderous associates, report that the atrocities committed 
were not the result of passions excited by the heat of the conflict, 
but of a policy deliberately decided upon and unhesitatingly an- 
nounced. When the women and children were crossing the river by 
the aid of the Union gunboats, the rebel sharpshooters, mingled 
with and shielded by "them, fired upon the officers and men. Like 
incarnate fiends as they are, they placed women in front of their 
lines as they moved upon the fort. They rushed into the fort during 
the time the flag of truce was flying, which is held sacred even by 
Turks and savages, and commenced an indiscriminate slaughter, 
sparing neither age nor sex, white nor black, soldier nor civilian, 
men, women nor children ; of the latter, those not over ten years of age 
were made to face their murderers, and thus shot. The sick and 
wounded, while lying in their beds in the hospitals, were dragged 
out and butchered without mercy. Numbers of men were collected 
into groups or lines, and deliberately shot down, and those of the 
wounded near the river bank were brutally kicked into the river, 
where they svere drowned, heaping insult and torture upon the vie- 



trYns of their diabolical cruelty. No barbarity which the most fiend- 
ish malignity could devise, was omitted by these incarnate demons. 
A mere child, which an officer had taken up behind him on his horse, 
was ordered to be put down and shot, which was done. The tents 
where the wounded lay were set on fire, and many of their occupants 
were consumed in the flames; those who escaped were shot down or 
had their brains beaten out by the cowardly ruffians. One man was 
deliberately nailed down to the floor of a tent, the tent fired, and he 
perished in the flames. Another was nailed to the side of a build- 
ing, and it set on fire, and he also perished in the flames. These 
deeds of unutterable cruelty closed at night, only to be renewed next 
nmrning, when these brutes, for they cannot be called men, care- 
fully sought among the dead in all directions for the wounded that 
were still alive. 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 
TREATMENT OP LOYAL MEN, AND THEIR SUFFERINGS FOR OPINION'S SAKE. 

September 18, 1863, twenty or thirty rebels went in the night to the 
house of Marshal Glaze, a loyal man of Spring Creek, Virginia, and 
murdered John McMullen, Marshal Glaze, and a discharged Union sol- 
dier while asleep, three others making their escape. The same gang 
then visited the dwelling of a Mr. Noyes, a Union man near by, and 
attempted to pursuade, finally to force, a young girl to accompany them 
for a vile purpose ; upon refusal, they immediately shot her dead. — 
Authority, Mr. McWater, Member House of .Delegates, West Va., 1861. 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

In January, 1863, James Keith, with the 65th N. C. regiment, was 
ordered to arrest some men at Laurel Hill for seizing salt at Marshal, 
N. C. Before the regiment arrived, these engaged in the seizure fled, 
and the innocent had to suffer. Twelve persons were arrested, varying 
in their ages from seven to sixty, who protested their innocence and 
plead for a trial, which was promised. They were marched off, but had 
proceeded but a few miles when they were taken into a mountain gorge, 
and five of them ordered to kneel ; a file of soldiers was drawn up in 
front of them, when, deaf to the agonizing cries for mercy, the protesta- 
tions of their perfect innocence, of the promise of trial, and entreaties 
for a brief time for prayer and preparation for death, the order was 
given to " fire," which the soldiers hesitated to obey. Keith told them 
peremptorily to obey or he would exchange places with the prisoners. 
Again the order was given, and five men fell ; five others were ordered 
to kneel, and of the number a little boy of twelve years, who plead with 
his executioners, " You shot my father in the face, please don't shoot me 
in the face," and covered his face with his hands. Five more fell at tlie 
order to fire, and among them was this child, wounded in both arms, and 
three of his brothers, dead ; the little hero, at the feet of the inhuman 
officer, implored to be spared to his mother, who was deprived of a 
husband and three sons at his hands, but in vain. He was dragged 
back to the place of execution, and was sacrificed, pierced with eight 
balls ; those in whom life was not extinct, were dispatched with pistols; 
the bodies were tumbled into one grave or hole, into which they were 
jammed by the feet of these godless wretches, who danced and shouted 
hi their sacrilegious work as if at a carnival of devils. They then re- 
turned to Laurel Hill, and commenced torturing the wives of loyal men 
in order to discover where the salt was concealed. Mrs. S. Skelton and 



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Mrs. E. Skelton were whipped until the blood ran down their persons 
to the ground, then hung until life was almost extinct, then taken down. 
Martha White, an idiotic girl, was whipped, then tied to a tree by the 
neck, and left all day. Mrs. Riddle, aged eighty-five years, was inhu- 
manly whipped, then robbed. Mrs. Sallie More, aged seventy, was 
whipped until blood ran to the ground. One woman, name forgotten, 
who had a child five or six weeks old, was tied to a tree in the snow, 
and her child placed in the open door in her sight, and she was told they 
both should perish. — On the authority of Col. Urawford, Tenn. 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

After the battle of Gettysburg, the Unionists of North Carolina began 
to speak more freely, and revolt was feared ; in consequence, a regiment 
of soldiers was sent to Randolph county to preserve order. The kind 
of order thai was preserved may be known by the following atrocity, 
one of many committed upon the unprotected loyalists of that region : 
These soldiers decoyed a one-armed man, under pretence of employing 
him as a guide, into a piece of woodland, where his body was found 
several days after, completely riddled with bullets ; he was heard a long- 
distance begging and imploring for his life ; from the marks of blood 
and foot-prints, it was believed that he was compelled to run round his 
tormentors, they shooting at him as he ran to see how many times they 
hit and not kill him. — Authority, Bryan Tyson, Esq., author of " Bay 
of Lights 

"Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

Champ Ferguson, the prince of fiends, and his gang, captured three 
white men and a negro in Fentress County, Tennessee, and tieing them 
together, drove them to Wolf Run. On the way, these wretches grati- 
fied their savage propensities by thrusting sharpened splinters* of wood 
into the flesh of their helpless victims, and cutting them off close to their 
bodies. To make them travel faster they pitched their bowie knives 
into them. When arrived at the run, the unfortunate men were put to 
slow torture by bayonets stuck into them, and cutting off pieces of their 
flesh, until the work of death was well nigh complete. Finally, gorged 
with "this disgusting work, Ferguson dispatched one of the men by actu- 
ally hacking him into pieces with his knife, and his comrades in guilt put 
an end to the torments of the remainder by the same means. This same 
man, Ferguson declared in a speech at Sparta, Tennessee, that he had 
already killed sixteen Lincoluites, and intended to kill enough to make 
twenty-five, then he was willing to die. — Authority, Gen. J. B. Bogers, 
Tennessee. 

" Immediate efforts be made fur a cessation of hostilities." 

In April, 1862, a man named Bright, sixty years old, living in Johnson 
County, Tennessee, with two sons and two nephews, was arrested by Col. 
Foulke's cavalry and marched into Ash County. There a grocery-keep- 
er, a brother murderer, proposed to treat this band of " chivalry " with 
eight gallons of brandy, if they would hang the prisoners without trial. 
The proposal was eagerly accepted, and the company of five were hung to 
the first tree without ceremony. — By authority of Col. Cratvford, Tenn. 

In the later part of 1802, and early in I860, the rebels in Mississippi 
conscripted all the men they could find between the ages of 18 and 60 : 
the Unionists fled to the woods to escape the conscription, and the fiends 
set blood hounds on their track ; by this inhuman method, many were 
captured and many nearly torn in pieces by these dogs before they could 
be rescued. 



In Alabama the conscription was prosecuted with still greater sever- 
ity. During the winter of 1862, a young girl, while carrying food to her 
father, hidden in a cave, was attacked by one of these dogs, and literally 
torn to pieces. Also two women, who were making their way to Tus- 
cumbia, Franklin County, Alabama, were torn to pieces in the same way. 
In reference to the outrages committed in the above named States, Gen- 
eral Dodge, in a letter to a friend, says : " That while their leaders, from 
the President down, boast of their carrying on this war in accordance 
with the laws that 'govern nations, a few simple facts will put them to 
the blush. Men and women are hung and shot, and hunted down and 
captured by blood hounds ; fathers and husbands in the presence, and in 
spite of the tears and prayers of their wives and daughters, and many 
times with them, are hung or shot. Houses were burned over the heads 
of their inmates, and women and children turned out of doors, and the 
community solemnly warned not to receive or harbor fliem, at their 
peril." The General says that "hundreds of men, women, and children, 
gray haired men, and cripples on crutches, were constantly fleeing from 
the tender mercies of these 'high-toned gentlemen' into his lines — Cor- 
inth, Mississippi — for life and protection, simply and only for opinion's 
sake." Will " sympathizers" any longer doubt, or dare deny, that Union 
men, under the conscription, were hunted or captured and mangled by 
blood hounds ! Talk about " arbitrary arrest" and "illegal imprison- 
ment !" 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

In May. 1861, a rebel command under Debrell and Jenkins, natives of 
Tenn., went from Austin, Texas, to destroy a German settlement near 
El Paso, of that State, consisting of two hundred and fifty souls. From 
eighty to one hundred of these ruffians, without the slightest provoca- 
tion, attacked this peaceful, prosperous, and thoroughly loyal communi- 
ty, and it is not known that three persons escaped. Fathers, mothers, 
sisters, brothers, and helpless infants constituted one common scene of 
indiscriminate carnage, and houses, barns, and crops were burned and 
trampled from the face of the earth. Authority, Gen. J. B. Rogers. 
''Sympathizers" are horrified at any attempt to stop such work by 
" coercion." Will the American public endorse such doctrines, and their 
application ? 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

In March, 1863, Capt. Montgomery was kidnapped, and taken to a 
rebel camp on the Rio Grande, Texas. Here he was informed that he 
was to be hung, and mockingly ordered to say his prayers ; a rope was 
placed about his neck, and he commanded to tell what he knew of the 
Federal forces. He refused — whereupon, he was hung up to a branch 
of a tree until nearly dead, then let down ; when consciousness was re- 
stored, the same question was put, with the same result. He was then 
hung, where he remained until taken down, and buried by a friendly 
Mexican. When these cowardly murderers found # it out, they 
disinterred the body, declaring that it should lay unburied, and 
thus rot. Capt. Bruin, of S. C, commanded this band of outlaws, and 
for this act of " bravery ajid good conduct," in hanging a defenceless 
man, was promoted, and now rejoices in the title of Major of the 1st 
Texas Cavalry. Why not call upon such men and their friends to guide 
the destinies of this great country for the next four years, and for all 
time ? Why not ? — Colonel Stanley, of Texas. 



A letter dated Monterey, Mexico, Nov. 18G2, from Vice Consul M. 
M. M. Kenimey, states, on the authority of an eye-witness, that twelve 
Unionists of Western Texas, provided with passports from the rebel 
Provost Marshal, were all massacred on the Nences river, by a body of 
Texas rangers, but a short time previous to the above date. Also, a 
party of Germans were all killed, with one' exception, who escaped 
wounded, by the same party. The Consul remarks— u You cannot 
imagine how Union men are treated in Texas; they are hung on the 
slightest suspicion." 

"Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

An official letter from Maj. Gen. Blunt, Oct. 7th, 1863, in reference- 
to the massacre at Baxter Springs, Mo., says : " The. body of Major Cur- 
tis, the son of Maj. Gen. Curtis, was found where thrown from his horse, 
shot through the head, evidently having been murdered after being taken 
prisoner." The same was the case with all the wounded, the members 
of the bantl, the officers' clerks and tlie teamsters. The murderers were 
a portion of Coppey's and Quantrell's command, disguised by Federal 
uniforms. About seventy were thus butchered by these worse than 
fiends. 

"Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.''' 

An official letter from Col. W. R. Penick, dated Independence, Mo., 
January 11th, 1863, says: ''Private Johnson, of the artillery, was brought 
in dead to-day, the fifth murdered the last week. They were all wound- 
ed and killed afterwards, in the most horrible manner that fiends could 
devise. ' All were shot in the head, several had their faces fearfully cut, 
evidently with boot-heels; powder was exploded in one man's ear, and 
both ears cut off close to the head." 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

In April, 1862, a party of rebel soldiers — if highwaymen can be thus 
dignified — on a tour of collecting conscripts, shot and instantly killed 
a poor deranged woman, Mrs. Ruth A. Rhea, on Lick Creek, in Green 
County, Tenn., because she attempted to drive them from her premises 
with a stick, when conscripting her only son and support. — Authority of 
Col. Crawford* 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

Ill a letter to the Mayor of New Orleans, April 26th, 1862, Admiral 
Farragut says : " I shall speedily and severely punish any person or 
persons who shall commit such outrages as were witnessed yesterday — 
armed men firing upon helpless women and children, for giving expres- 
sion to their pleasure at witnessing the old flag." These are the 
" gentlemen " soldiers we read of, formed out of the raw material called 
" chivalry." 

" Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

Mr. St. Clair, mate of the steamboat McRay, states that " in August, 
1850, while his vessel was lying at the wharf near New Orleans, a 
German pedlar, who could scarcely understand or utter a sentence in 
English, was caught and hung to a lamp-post by a mob, for simply 
having in his possession photographs of Mr. Lincoln, then candidate for 
the Presidency, and not the least opposition was made by the police, nor 
any notice taken of it by the city authorities."' 

"Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities."' 

During the engagement between the Federal gunboats and the rebel 



batteries on White River, in Arkansas, a shot from one of their Latteries 
exploded the boiler of the Mound City. To avoid death by scalding, 
the crew leaped overboard, for whose rescue small boats were imme- 
diately, sent. The rebels fired large guns and musketry upon the strug- 
gling, drowning men, and upon the crews of the boats sent to their aid, 
as they did under similar circumstances in the harbor of Mobile., upon 
the crew and officers of the unfortunate Tecumseh. This was done 
under the eye of Admiral Davis, who distinctly saw the cowardly act,- 
and remarks in his report, " that the country will contrast these barbar- 
ities of a savage enemy with the hundred efforts made by our own 
people to rescue the wounded and disabled, under like circumstances, in 
the engagement of the 6th." 

'' Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." 

Rev. Mr. Angesey, of Miss., states that "he was seized by the rebels, 
heavily ironed, and, with eighty others, placed in a dungeon ; my crime 
was that I defended the Union cause. While I was in prison, numbers 
were led out and shot. At first those in charge provided coffins ; but 
the great number of executions exceeding the supply, they dug a trench, 
and made' the man sit down on the brink, when a file of soldiers ad- 
vanced and fired three balls into the head and three into the hearts of 
their victims ; this was the mode of execution." He further states, that 
" he was himself hunted by bloodhounds, as were other Union men in 
that State." 

"Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities. ," 

A full history of all these atrocities would fill volumes. But why continue the recital ? 
Sufficient has been recounted in these brief pages to stamp these perfidious rebels as the 
most cruel and blood-thirsty wretches that ever disgraced mankind. The mind recoils in 
horror from the contemplation of the barbarities they have practiced upon our -citizens 
and soldiers for no other crime than that of loving their country and their flag. But the 
civilized world will stand aghast at the fact that the recent Copperhead convention at 
Chicago was composed of men in full and shameless sympathy with the bloody and brutal 
tj'rants at Richmond, who inspired and commanded the commission of the crimes and 
atrocities herein exposed and held up to the execration of civilization. The platform of 
Peace aud Disunion there erected will forever stand out in history as the foulest blot 
upon our escutcheon, and will make our latest posterity to blush with shame and humilia- 
tion. This shame must be wiped out as far as possible by the loyal people by burying, 
in one common political grave, that atrocious platform of an ignominious and degrading 
peace, and the candidates who stand upon it, illustrating its infamy and its disloyalty. 

} "Down with tlie traitor and up with the star !" 



New Book — Entitled, " Sufferings for a Free Government ; or, a History of the Cruelties and Atrocities of the 
Rebellion." 

This work has been carefully compiled and collated from official documents and other reliable sources, by 
Thomas L. Wilson, clerji in the Fourth Auditor's Office, Treasury Department, and embodies a thrilling history 
of the cruelties, tortures, and savage barbarities inflicted upon Union men, women, children, and Union soldiers 
i» the Rebel States, since the first inauguration of the Rebellion by the Secessionists, who, as a people, lay 
claim to Ml the chijalry, refinement, ami gallantry of the human race, (to let them tell it:) hut whose savage 
propensities and extreme cruelties have never yet hud a parallel in the history of savage warfare, much less in 
civil Christian strife. — Daily Morning Chronicle, D. C, Sept. 1. 1864. 

Orders may be sen! («> Thomasi. Wilson, Fourth Auditor's Office, or to C. Storrs, Chief Clerk, same office. 
The Book will contain about 300 pages'. Price $1.50. 

Mr. Thomas L. Wilson 1ms compiled a mass of valuable and interesting information on the subject of rebel 
barbarities and the suffering and oppression o£ Union citizens in the insurgent districts. The facts presented 
are drawn from authentic sources and worthy of credence. 

Hon. .T. 51. EDMUNDS, Commissioner of Genera! Land Oflice. 

C. STORRS, Esq., Chief Oterk Fourth Auditor's Office. 
Hon. P. P. HOLLOWAY, Commissioner Vf Patents. 
Hon. GREEN ADAMS. Sixth Auditor of the Treasury. 
lion. GEORGE W. McLEiLAN, Second Ass't Postmaster General. 
Hon. W. P. POLK, Commissioner of India7l Affairs. 
August -IS, 1SG4. 

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